The Australian Barramundi Farmers’ Association (ABFA) supports its members to strive to differentiate Australian farmed Barramundi on quality, safety, and sustainability. A critical aspect in building market share and securing premium price is assuring buyers and consumers that every meal of...
Cardicola forsteri is the dominant blood fluke species detected in farmed Southern Bluefin Tuna in 2018. Our results have shown that traditional methods (heart flush and gill microscopy) were limited to detecting adults or eggs. Comparisons of currently used diagnostic methods showed that...
As the Australian Barramundi industry continues to expand growing importance needs to be placed on ensuring nationally consistent biosecurity measures are implemented across all enterprises. In 2014, the aquatic animal industries and Commonwealth and State and Territory Governments endorsed...
To improve viability, increase growth and maintain profitability, it was identified, through the CRC project “Barramundi branding and repositioning program”, that there needs to be a commitment to quality (along with sustainability) to justify the price differential between Australian...
This report provides a summary of the Australian Barramundi Farmers’ Association (ABFA) Industry
Partnership Agreement (IPA) with the Fisheries Research and Development Corporation for the
period 2015-2020. The primary objective of the IPA was to coordinate research and development
funded...